Chapter 880: Price Of Greed
Hearing the confirmation from the woman, the leader of the group was pleased.
“Good! We’ll sneak in later. Just get everything ready.” The leader said and looked at the commander in the distance. “As for them, we already have the Powdered Wings of the Mid Night butterfly ready.” He added.
“Mmhmm… we’ll spread it once they are resting.” Another man spoke.
“Very well. We’ll get started on this once we have some more information.” The leader said, before dismissing everyone.
The members of this group dispersed in the crowd and listened to their conversations, preparing for their plan.
Time passed, and soon it was nightfall. The soldiers and the rest of the expedition members were sleeping while the commander and Elder Guo were discussing some matters, unaware that a part of their members was violating orders and intruding in the end hall.
“That’s all of them.” A man said as he lifted his hood. “They should all be asleep for a few hours now.”
“Perfect. The commander and Elder Guo should be busy in figuring things out as well. This should give us enough time to get the jade slip and sneak off.” The elder stated.
The members of his group nodded their heads and walked into the last hall. There was no one guarding it due to the fear that they might awaken the creature inside and thus it was easy to get in.
The doors weren’t closed either, thus making the process even quicker.
~shiver~
Once in, the small group couldn’t help but shiver seeing the creature again.
“Damn… no matter how much I look at it, it makes me tremble.”
“Yeah… whatever that creature it is, it is certainly strong.” The leader said with a nod.
“How do you think they got that thing in here, though?” the woman asked.
“I don’t think they got it in here… I think this place was built around it instead.” A short haired man replied.
“Really? They built an intricate tomb with so many formation arrays around a creature like that with no issues? I doubt that.”
“Who know’s what kind of power the person who built this had. Maybe they had subdued their creature and commandeer it to guard their tomb.” The leader guessed. “Regardless, we should get to our plan.”
“Of course.” His companions said as they started to approach the creature.
They were slow at first, watching their every step to ensure no trap was triggered. Even if they had not found any trap initially, there was no confirmation for it. They couldn’t take the risk of dying to a random trap after coming this far.
Little by little, they approached the creature and five minutes later, they were finally next to it.
‘It is simply massive at this proximity… just how long is this serpent when it is uncoiled?’ the woman couldn’t help but wonder.
The leader’s eyes were on the jade slip that was kept on a small altar right below the creature. Others might have missed it, but his sharp eyes would never miss something like this. Not to mention, they even had a treasure insight compass.
The Treasure Insight Compass was a high grade spirit tool that had a value comparable to that of a peak grade spirit tool. They were very hard to refine, and there were only a few spirit tool refiners that could even make them.
The one that their group had was something they had found in another ruin a long back. They were an independent treasure hunting group that had been working for many years now and they had still kept their abilities secret.
“There we go.” The leader softly whispered upon grabbing the jade slip from the altar.
‘There really were no traps…’ the others were still surprised by this.
But while the leader held the jade slip in his hand, he realized that the looks that his companions were giving some suddenly changed. They changed from that of satisfaction to fear.
“What?” The leader asked.
“E-eye… there is an eye.” The woman said in a trembling voice while pointing.
“An eye?” the leader turned to look up and saw an eye watching him.
The eye had appeared on the body of the creature and was staring at him without blinking. It was nearly half a meter wide and looked eerie.
The leader started to step back, ready to run at a moment’s notice.
It was at this time that a voice was heard.
“Finally… you people made me wait nearly a week.” A strange and distorted voice spoke.
“I… I-Its awake!” the cultivators realized.
~tremble~
The body of the creature started to move, and the entire floor shook from it.
“Well then… let’s start, shall we?” Lin Wu spoke as his mouth opened.
Tens of tentacles popped out from his mouth, wiggling like maggots, even having individual mouths of their own.
“RUN!” The leader said as he directly used his trump card, increasing his speed by five times.
~WHOOSH~
But before he could even go halfway to the doors, he was caught.
~SPLAT~
“ARGH!” A loud and painful cry was let out by him.
A long tentacle jutted out of his stomach, holding him in the air.
“One down, one hundred and ninety-two to go.” The distorted voice spoke once more.
~SCREAM~
The treasure hunters could no longer hold their voices in and screamed their lungs out.
~SHUA~ SHUA~ SHUA~
Unfortunately all of them were caught just before they reached the door, the tentacles piercing through their bodies.
Back where the rest of the expedition members were waiting, a commotion started.
“WHAT WAS THAT?!” a few that were not under the effect of the poison woke up in fright.
“Someone cried out from the corridor.”
The commander and Elder Guo stopped talking as their faces fell.
“SHIT!” An expression of rage appeared on the commander’s face, knowing that someone had broken his rules.
~BOOM~
A loud sound was heard, and a cloud of dust spread out from the corridors.
“EVERYONE LEAVE THE TOMB!” the commander ordered.
Unfortunately, only a quarter of the people actually woke up the rest still asleep.
